Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [am/are] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very important position you 're after , I shall have to be very thorough in checking whether you 're up to it . |
| 2 | ‘ In a large software development team , you can spend a large part of your time on company politics and another large part on documenting when you 're up to it . |
| 3 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 4 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 5 | ISWALLOW hard , suspecting that I am about to become another statistic in the rising tide of Tube violence , 380 reported assaults a year and mounting , 16,000 other crimes . |
| 6 | Personally , I just get the feel going and I 'm out of here ! |
| 7 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |
| 8 | Now that she 's gone you wo n't always be saying that you 're off to the pictures with her . |
| 9 | Such employees are designated ‘ business users ’ and assigned a special code on the system indicating that they are out on business . |
| 10 | So in other words , we 're saying if they 're off sick , erm , they decide to go out and , you know , do something else to earn some money , then they would n't be able to claim under their policy . |
| 11 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 12 | I do a lot of sketching when I 'm out , of real people in the street . |
| 13 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 14 | I 'm just trying to make you aware of what you 're dealing when you 're out there with the people 's |
| 15 | ‘ He 'll entertain a whole load of people watching while we 're out on location but he can turn it on and off like a light — the cameras roll and he 's totally into Grant Mitchell . |
| 16 | She goes er she goes ssshhhh no I 'd better not say that since , seeing as you 're in . |
| 17 | ‘ I know I do n't , but I might as well make myself useful , seeing as I 'm back , ’ she snapped . |
| 18 | The new , independent Her Majesty 's inspectorate will have the duty of giving a little lion stamp to those inspectors and ensuring that they are up to the mark . |